OpenEuphoria

Re: Euphoria environment variables (was: quick cgi question)

• Posted by Ed Davis <ed_davis2 at yahoo.com> Apr 02, 2006
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Juergen Luethje wrote:

>The interpreter/translator just had to look for a file "Euphoria.ini"
>in the same directory where it is located itself. 100%
>cross-platform, and no hassle with environment variables any more.
>What do you think?

But is this cross-platform?

Under DOS and Windows, C compilers use argv[0] to get the complete path
to the program.

However, argv[0] isn't populated the same way under Linux. argv[0]
appears to contain the command string that was typed to start the
executable.  This is on RedHat, SlackWare, and Knoppix.  I assume the
other distributions are the same?

I don't know about FreeBSD, but I assume this is a Unix thing.

So, how does a program find the complete path to itself on Linux?

Finally, I agree, it would be nice to not require environment
variables!